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A Collection of Surveys on Market Experiments

ISBN: 978-1-118-79068-7

November 2013

Wiley-Blackwell

248 pages

Description

Comprised of 10 surveys by leading scholars, this collection showcases the largest and fastest growing strands of research on market behaviour in experimental economics. 

  • Covers topics such as asset markets, contests, environmental policy, frictions, general equilibrium, labour markets, multi-unit auctions, oligopoly markets, and prediction markets
  • Focuses on the literature that has helped economists best understand how markets operate
  • Assesses the impact of developments in theory, policy, and research methods
About the Author

Charles N. Noussair is Professor of Economics at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. He specializes in experimental economics and his research uses an experimental approach to study individual choice, collective action, markets, auctions, macroeconomics, and international economics.

Steven Tucker is Founder and Director of the Waikato Experimental Economics Laboratory, a state-of-the-art research facility, and Senior Lecturer in Economics at Waikato University, New Zealand.  He uses experimental economic methods to study research questions in a range of areas of economics such as industrial organization, financial economics, and macroeconomics.